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Kuru · Contaminant

EXERCISE 18 OF 46
Run G1 · Part G (bars 12-32)
75 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
PART L
CHORUS
PART Y
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesRGPACL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kuru on drums

141 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-26, snare through bars 27-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57 and 59, and 5 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    90
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Kuru -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 26, 27, 36, 37, 56 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 12-47 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kuru?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Kuru hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Kuru?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 26, 27, 36, 37, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED